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...EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA IS LOSING friends fast. The 30-year-old boycott suffered two blows in quick succession. First the U.N. General Assembly approved a Castro-sponsored call for an end to sanctions; then the - Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Pastors for Peace delivered 12.5 tons of illegally exported supplies to Havana...
...Avila the real thing? Officially, both Washington and Havana are mum, although Avila's involvement with Miami's Alpha 66 paramilitary group was long known to the FBI. He claims Castro covertly funded some exile raids on Cuba to build nationalist fervor at home and embarrass Washington. The red faces were most obvious, however, in Miami, where rabid anti-Castro militants like Alpha 66 and Commandos L denied that they had been infiltrated or financed by the enemy...
Both the Reagan and Bush Administrations have avidly sought the group's counsel. Not to be outdone, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has traveled to Miami's Little Havana to seek Cuban-American money and Mas' support. In Congress the foundation was the major force behind the creation of Radio and TV Marti, the U.S.-sponsored propaganda stations beamed into Cuba. Outside the legislative realm, the group won the right to prescreen Cuban immigrants headed for the U.S. from third countries, and last year it rammed through regulations limiting the money Cuban exiles can send to relatives back home...
...Cuban army veterinarian, he was arrested as a teenager in the 1950s for denouncing dictator Fulgencio Batista on the radio. He fled to Miami in 1960, fearing he would be arrested again, this time for openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit a B-26 aircraft with bombs to hit Cuba's oil refineries...
...pressing his advantage during the presidential campaign, Mas won his immediate goal: a tighter embargo on Havana's trade. Whether that succeeds in shortening Castro's tenure is uncertain, but the pain it causes ordinary Cubans could be severe. What worries some of Mas' countrymen is that his personal ambitions may overshadow the good of a homeland he hasn't seen in 32 years...